Meat-salter.



' F. HAGKMANN & G. A. GHILDS.

MEAT SALTEB. nrmoumu nun nov. 14, 1003.

Patented May 18, 1909.

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FREDERICK HACKMANN, OF ST. PAUL, AND GEORGE A. GHILDS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MIN- NESOTA, SAID HACKMANN ASSIGNOR TO SAID GHILDS AND HENRY L. GIFFORD,' OF

MINEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

MEAT-SALTEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1909.

Application filed November 11. 1908. Serial No. 462,788.

To. all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK HACK- MANN, of St. Paul, Ramsey county, Minne sota,and GEORGE A. CHILDS, of Minneapolis Hennepin' county, Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inv fIyMeat-Salte'rs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a tool, by means of which salt or a preparation includmg salt and other preservatives'may be injected into a ham, the purpose being to save timeandlabo'r usually required to perform this operation.

' The invention consists generally in a tool, adapted to contain a quantity of salt or simii8! material and having means, which, when shank is drawn out.

the tool is inserted into the meat, can be utili'zed to eject the salt.

In the accom anying drawings forming part of this s ci ation, Figure 1 1s a view 0 a tool, embo yin our invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, i lustrating the device for ejectin the salt from the tool. Fig. 3 illustrates t c ejecting device in operation. Fig. 4 isla detail view of the handle portion of the too In the drawings, -2 represents a shank portion, having a pointed end 3, for insertion into the meat. The shank is provided with a hand grip 4, having a transverse slot 5, to receive a pin 6 on a shank 7, which has an operating handle 8. A. slot 9 leads into the transverse slot 5 and ermits the separation of the hand ip and the pin 6. A art 10 is attached to the shank 7 and has the notions of a cover for closing a longitudinal chamber 11 that is formed in the shank 2 and wherein the salt or other reservative in dry form is placed. When t e cover 10 is rotated to close the chamber 11, the device will assume a cylindricalform and can easil and uickly ithin the cover 10 we provide an ejector 12, held by flanges 13 and have a socket 14 to receive a locking pin 15 that is carried by a collar 16. This pin holds the ejector when the After the tool is insert- I ed into the meat, the cover is rotated until it rests within the chamber 11 and between the salt and the walls of said chamber. At that time, the operator, graspm the handle 8, ma draw the shank outwar and holding the co ar'16 firmly with the other hand, the

ejector will engage the salt-in the chamber 11 tool.

it on sai semi-cylindrical in form are thus able to expel ry salt or other preservative from the chamber of He shank without any delay in the operation of the As soon as the salt is ejected, the

and force it therefrom a ainst the meat. We

garts may be re-assembled, the chamber lled again and the tool thrust into another ham and the operation repeated.

We prefer to provide lugs 17 on the collar l6 to enter recesses 18 in the hand grip 4,

thereby preventing the collar from turning prematurely. When desired, the in 15 may be witlh drawn from its socket 1n the ejector andthe parts easily and quickly separated.

We claim as our invention:

1. A meat salter, comprising a shank, having a pointed end and a longitudinal chamber a apted to be filled with salt, semi-cylindrical means for closing said chamber when the device is thrust into the meat and means operating longitudinally in said semi-cylindrical means for ejecting the salt. 2. Arneat salter, comprising a shank, hav- H3; a pointed end and a longitudinal chamber a apted to be filled with salt, a cover semicylindrical in form, for closing said chamber when the device is thrust into the meat, said cover being ada ted to be rotated and fit within the cham er in, said shank between its walls and the salt, and a salt ejecting device.

3. A meatsalter, comprising a shank, havinig a pointed end and a lo 'tudinal chamber a aptedto be filled with sa t, means for closing said chamber when the device is thrust into the meat, said closing means having a hand and means for temporarily lOGkllli shank, and a salt e'ector provide h said shank is in said chamber and on whic adapted to slide when it 'is withdrawn from.

into t e meat.

5. Ameat salter, comprising a shank, hav

ingl-a chamber to receive salt and a pointed on and a handle at its opposite end, a cover avmg a hand grip adapted tocontain a uantity of salt,

mounted on said shank, said hand grip and cover having a limited rotary movement on I said shank and said cover passing between operating len thwise in said cover, for the said shank and the salt therein when the purpose specified. cover is rotated, and a salt ejector provided 8. A device of the class described, com in said shank and operating longitudinally prising a shankhaving an end ada ted to be therein and having means for preventing inserted into the meat and provided with a premature rotary movement thereof. lon itudinal chamber, means fitting within 6. A meat salter, comprising a shank sai chamber and provided with an operatsemi-cylindrical in form having a pointed ing handle and havlng a rotary movement in end and adapted to contain a quantity of I said chamber to close the open side of the salt, a cover device arranged to close said same during the operation of thrustin the chamber and prevent the escape of the salt i tool into the meat, said closin' ineans eing therefrom when the shank is thrust into the I also capable of withdrawal longitudinally from said chamber during the o eration of ejecting the contents of the cham er, and an said shank and cover having a relative lon itudinal movement and an ejecting device meat said shank and cover device having a relative longitudinal movement, and a salt ejector rovided in said cover device, substantial y as described. c

7. A meat salter, comprising a shank hav- In witness whereof, we have hereunto set ing an end ladaptel to1 lilo tlfirust iinto dthe I our hands this 11th day of November 1908.

meat and a on 1tu inn 0 am er arapte to 1 I be filled with salt, a cover semi-cylindrical in i form for closing said chamber when the device is thrust into the meat, said cover Witnesses:

adapted to be rotatedand fitting within the RICHARD PAUL,

chamber between its walls and the salt, and i J 1A. BYINGTON.

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ei'ecting device operating lengthwise in said 

